Sunshine pouring over your skin, the waves lapping at the beach, a good poolside read with your favourite sunglasses on... Nothing feels like summer! But before you start relaxing, be sure you add these beauty essentials to your makeup kit for a healthy complexion all summer long.
Choose light-textured moisturizing formulas adapted to your skin type to help get that healthy, natural makeup look this summer.
Refreshing waters
Citrus zest, fig, ginger liqueur, jasmine... if youre spending time out in the sun, you’ll want to spritz on these fragrant, sparkling treatment fragrances all throughout the day. They’re an easy way to moisturize and invigorate any skin type (even ones with special conditions) while leaving it refreshingly scented all summer long. Yummy!
- Eau de Toilette Vitamin Water (Biotherm): This simple, refreshing spray features vitamin E and natural citrus-essence perfumes to soften, tone, moisturize and revitalize your skin, even on the hottest summer day.
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Black Rose Tea Eau de Toilette (Tealogy): You’ll love the fresh, floral, woody and elegant tea-inspired notes of this delicate water featuring extracts of rose, green tea, mandarin and blackcurrant, plus vitamins C and E.
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Eau Extraordinaire (Clarins): Give your skin the comfort it deserves with this floral and fruity treatment fragrance, made from 95% natural ingredients. Its delicate formula blends the comforting fragrance of essential oils with the softening, stimulating power of plant extracts.
A versatile powder brush
A good powder brush is a must when applying foundation on those hot summer days! Whether you’re applying a little bronzer, adding a touch of illuminator to give your eyes that wide-open look, or setting your makeup with translucent powder, you can always rely on versatile, professional-quality powder brushes for impeccable results.
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Pro Powder Brush (NYX Professional Makeup): Made with fine synthetic fibres, this soft, pro-quality brush ensures flawlessly easy application of loose or pressed powders all year long, even in intense heat!
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Powder Brush (Clarins): Incomparably soft, this thick, round-end powder brush is the ideal tool for applying compact and loose powders evenly to help set your makeup and mattify your complexion.
Gentle makeup
It's not easy to choose a mascara when you’ve got sensitive eyes or your wear contact lenses. But don’t worry! There are brands that offer hypoallergenic formulas to ensure your comfort in any weather, without compromising your look. Length, volume, definition... they’ve got it all to help enhance your sunny summer tan!
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Lash Sensational Full Fan Effect Waterproof Volume Mascara (Maybelline New York): This black liquid formula features a unique fan-shaped brush to amplify your lashes from root to tip, giving them added volume and a beautiful fan effect for a fresh summer look.
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Mister Big Mascara (Lancôme): Get up to 24 hours of hold and up to 12 X more volume for your lashes with this high-performance mascara!
A palette with all the right moves
Combining multi-purpose makeup products like bronzers, blushes and illuminators in a variety of shades, these all-in-one palettes help sculpt your facial contours and add radiance in all the right places. Better still, they fit perfectly into your handbag or travel beauty bag!
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The bronzing powder in these palettes is ideal for shaping paler skin tones with light facial contouring. Just apply it to your temples, the tip of your nose and your hairline and you can enjoy the sun beautifully!
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Havana Trio Glow Illuminating Kit (Watier): This palette includes a universal bronzing powder, a subtle illuminator and a radiant blush, perfect for giving your face a soft, warm glow.
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Highlight and Contour Pro Palette (NYX Professional Makeup): This professional set contains 8 different shades to illuminate and trace the contours of your face while highlighting your natural beauty.
A gel to help tame those eyebrows
Available clear or tinted, these gels offer THE ideal solution for mastering your eyebrows quickly and easily. One brush stroke over each eye is all it takes to tame those stubborn hairs while creating a more defined look. Better still, these brow gels can easily be combined with a pencil or tinted powder to create a bolder look—the ideal choice for an afternoon in the park or an evening out on the town!
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Eyebrow Sculpting Gel (Looky): featuring a triple-end applicator, this gel combs, sets and sculpts your eyebrows for lasting results.
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Perfection Volumizing Eyebrow Fibre Gel (Watier): this tinted volumizing gel has a long-lasting, waterproof formula that defines, fills in and sets your eyebrows naturally, while adding structure and volume all throughout the day.
A soothing nighttime mask
After hours in the great outdoors, why not pamper yourself with a treatment that will revitalize and moisturize your skin overnight. For plumping, nourishing or brightening your skin, there’s a wide variety of nighttime products to choose from! Some of them can even prevent discoloration and dark spots!
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Triple Power Night Mask (L'Oréal Paris): This creamy, moisturizing, leave-on nighttime mask penetrates quickly and enhances firmness while perfectly reproducing your skin's natural elasticity.
Don’t forget your solar protection!
While they’re not exactly makeup, sun creams and sunscreens are essential products to pack in your beauty travel kit this summer. In addition to protecting your skin from damage, these products also help prevent pigment spots, redness and other skin problems caused by the sun's UV rays. So, instead of camouflaging those flaws under a ton of foundation, stay healthy and help prevent them by using a sunscreen to keep your skin well protected this summer and all year long.
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You can boost the effects of your sunscreen by using a tinted day cream with a Solar Protection Factor (SPF) for your basic daily protection.
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Anthelios Targeted Protection Sensitive Zone Sunscreen Stick (La Roche-Posay): With an SPF of 60, this sun stick was created specifically for the sensitive areas of your face, like the T-zone (forehead, nose and chin), eye contour, lips and ears.
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Mineral Fluid Facial Suncare (Clinique): Ultra-light, invisible and comfortable to wear, this oil-free and fragrance-free, hypo-allergenic sunscreen features a 100% mineral filter that's ideal for any age or skin type (including even the most sensitive)!
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Anthelios Mineral One SPF 50 Tinted Day Cream (La Roche-Posay): Featuring broad-spectrum UVA and UVB protection, hyaluronic acid and antioxidant vitamin E, this non-irritating, lightweight, 100% mineral sunscreen gives you up to 24 hours of hydration and 12 hours of hold.